An interactive configuration environment consistent with the present invention integrates and displays a table-based business application using a single, interactive display. When business application structures are displayed using object-oriented code structures, the business meaning of the object-oriented code structures may also be displayed in the integrated environment. Users can write a new business rule using object-oriented code, and that code may be converted into logic entities to apply the new rule in the business application. When a user rolls a mouse over an item in the object-oriented code, documentation of the underlying business meaning may be displayed in a pop-up box.
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1. A method of analyzing configuration of a table-based business application, comprising: receiving an object-oriented model representing the table-based business application; displaying the object-oriented model and the table-based business application together in a single integrated configuration environment; receiving a change to the object-oriented model through the integrated configuration environment; correlating, using a processor, the change to the object-oriented model to a corresponding configuration change in the table-based business application; and updating the single integrated configuration environment to show the object-oriented model and the table-based business application together after the change has been correlated.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: applying the corresponding configuration change to the business application to configure a part of the business application.
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: modeling, in the integrated configuration environment, how the corresponding configuration change would alter the business application.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein displaying further comprises: displaying documentation from the business application together with its corresponding object-oriented structure.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein displaying further comprises: displaying a configuration tool in the integrated configuration environment.
6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the configuration tool is a pop-up window having instructions for creating a new object.
7. The method of claim 5 , wherein the configuration tool is a drop down list of available programming constructs.
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August 15, 2005
May 18, 2010
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